Today is Oprah’s last show

On today’s OTE on WTEN segment Christina and I will be talking about the end of a television talk show era. Oprah Winfrey — who has hosted her own talk show since 1986 — caps off this chapter of her career today with her last show.

We’d love to hear your Oprah memories. Did you grow up with the Queen of Talk? How did she help you? And who will be your new Oprah, if anyone?

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I like Oprah. I don’t get to see her show. But I think this big hoopla over her last show is in poor taste. She’s throwing herself a huge recognition party. It’s like, “look at me! I’m fantastic! Look at everything I’ve done! Where would you be without me?!”

I have enjoyed her show the most recently, and really love her OWN show “Behind the Scenes” where you see the making of one of her shows.

So much to take away and learn from what she has done, literally going from rags to riches. What I keep in my back pocket is her philosophy of letting things go…if someone isn’t taking or appreciating what I’m offering, she says to surrender to that and let them go….hard thing to do, but a good one.
It will be interesting to see her next moves. We haven’t heard the last of her…

Before the invention of DVR, I always wondered how so many millions of people (women) were able to be home at 4pm every day. haha

Seriously, the only times I’ve ever watched Oprah have been on snow days, when I had severe flu or sometimes on a Monday holiday. Even my mom, a die-hard Oprah fan, said over the last 25 years, she’s watched less than a hundred episodes, ‘Boy, I work for a living, I don’t have time for that girl!’ hahaha

My best Oprah memory was an early show, when she lost a bunch of weight. I think it was her first (public) battle with her extra pounds.

Anyway, she came on stage wearing a huge coat, and showed a photo of herself from years before, wearing a pair of jeans that hadn’t fit since that photo. Then she took off the coat – and she was wearing the jeans again.

I always pictured the typical Oprah fan as being like Peg Bundy sitting at home eating bon-bons and watching the tube all day…but now I realize my wife loves her, too, and I know she is a busy mom with a home based career! …but at least there are no bon-bons in the freezer…unless she is hiding them from me!

HOPEFUL – Oprah’s staff & friends threw her a big party, she didn’t give herself one. She definitely doesn’t have to do anything to say, ‘Look At Meeeeeee’ because her fans do that on their own.

I have watched Oprah for the 25 years she’s been on and she ‘had me at hello.’ I am a huge fan, as you may have learned from my FB post yesterday, and most people who know me know that I take my ‘relationship’ with my ‘Auntie O’ very seriously. I am so sad that her show will no longer be on the air for she has truly been an inspiration, and dare I say, life saver for me. The only good to come out of The Oprah Winfrey Show being off the air, for me, is that it means one less hour of TV I’ll be watching. I really am glad for her though….and I hope it means she will have more time to enjoy her life. I know she will continue to do great things and wherever she goes, I will be sure to follow! I LOVE OPRAH, FOR LIFE!

I liked Oprah much more during her early years when the show seemed more authentic. She lost me completely when she brought James Frey on to publicly berate him. Like, who the hell are you to further publicly humilate this man for writing a book (which fiction or not, was a fantastic story)?

I have a job, so I don’t really get to watch her show anymore, but it seems like the last few years have mostly been “Look at my awesome celebrity friends who are going to come on my show and tell me how much they love me.” Okay, we get it. Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Julia Roberts, the Pinket-Smiths and their creepy children think you’re all that.

I’d rather watch a show that discusses actual issues than a celebrity back patting session.

Who cares.Her life is a failure by all standards of measurement.She has no real love in her life,all her “Friends” are phoney,she hasn’t “Changed” the world in a positive way.She very much represents what’s wrong with America.Extremely superficial,narcissist,shallow.But shes Rich ????,and that’s Success to a failing America !!!!

Yeah, Oprah kind of got all new-agey sometime in the 90′s, which is where she lost me. When her show first came on, I was in high school and college, and she did a lot of hard hitting subjects. It was a good show, but I think the turning point was when she had Marianne Williamson on. At that point, she really started getting into all this self-help mumbo jumbo and seemed to become very narcissistic and flaky. And I agree with jenn – way, way too many celebrity love fests, er interviews. Not that I’ve had much time to watch in the last 15 years or so.

Well, when I was young, Oprah’s show was a trashfest like many others of that genre. Then, she classed it up a bit. I guess after that, ideas got a little old and tired, and it got a little trashy again.

Oprah has been a little preachy and self-righteous at times, and we’ve seen how she’s been punished for that. She has been on so long, and has had so many public trials and transformations that watching the show has been a little like watching the metamorphasis of a person.

I’m not an Oprah fan, nor detractor really..
I guess the only thing that concerns me is huge media stars like Oprah ( and on the other side of the political spectrum, Rush Limbaugh)end up having followers so dedicated that they become robots and adhere to whatever opinion the star has on a subject without thinking about it themselves…its sad and scary at the same time.